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"Ethnobotany Ethnobotanical data were collected while accompanying four local healers (curanderos) and three midwives (parteras) from the Loja, vilcabamba. Catamayo, Palanda, and Amaluza areas of Loja province, when they went into the field for harvesting and to the markets to buy plants. In addition, curanderos and parteras were visited in their homes during the 10 months of fieldwork to observe the preparation of remedies, and the authors participated in multiple healing rituals with each healer." - Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon, Plants of Longevity, The Medicinal Flora of Vilcabamba (Get the book.) "The present work grew out of an interdisciplinary project, initiated in 1995 on a grant from the San Diego Museum of Man, which involved collaboration between an ethnobotanist (Bussmann), a medical anthropologist (Sharon), an ethnopharmacologist (Ezra Bejar), and a curandero (Cruz Roa) from the region around the town of San Pedro de vilcabamba near Loja, Ecuador." - Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon, Plants of Longevity, The Medicinal Flora of Vilcabamba (Get the book.) "Etnobotanica Los datos etnobotanicos fueron tornados en com pan ia de cuatro curanderos locales y tres parteras de las areas de Loja, vilcabamba, Palanda y Amaluza de la provincia de Loja durante visitas al campo para cosechar especimenes y a los mercados para comprar plantas. Ademas, curanderos y parteras fueron visitados en sus casas durante los 10 meses de trabajo de campo para observar la preparacion de remedios, y los autores participaron en multiples ritualescon cadacurandero." - Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon, Plants of Longevity, The Medicinal Flora of Vilcabamba (Get the book.) "El trabajo actual salio de un proyecto interdisciplinario, iniciado en 1995 por una becadel Museodel Hombrede San Diego, California que involucro una colaboracion entre un etnobotanico (Bussmann), un antropologo medico (Sharon), un etnofarmacologo (Ezra Bejar) y un curandero (Cruz Roa) de la region alrededor del pueblo de San Pedro de vilcabamba cerca de Loja, Ecuador." - Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon, Plants of Longevity, The Medicinal Flora of Vilcabamba (Get the book.)

"Kenneth Pelletier, in his research on longevity, found that cultures in which people lived the longest, healthiest lives—the natives of the vilcabamba region of Ecuador, the Hunza of West Pakistan, the Tarahumara Indians of northern Mexico, and the Abkhasians of the Georgia region of Russia?ate low-protein, high-natural-carbohydrate diets that contained approximately one-half the amount of protein Americans eat and only 50-60 percent of the total calories.13 Paavo Airola makes the point in How to Get Well that one never sees an obese centenarian." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"They remembered all too well the longevity claims made decades ago about populations in Georgia in the Soviet Union, in Pakistan's Hunza Valley, and in Ecuador's vilcabamba Valley, which had all turned out to be overstated and based on faulty data. "I had a hard time convincing them," he recalled. Among those in attendance was Dr. Michel Poulain, a Belgian demographer who'd dedicated much of the past 15 years to studying pockets of long-lived peoples around the world." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Secrets of Long Life is based on his study of these hardy people native to the vilcabamba Valley. For instance, in his queries to the Vilcabambans about the mental health of their society, Walker asked if the older people suffered memory loss due to dementia. These long-lived people had never experienced anything like dementia. They didn't understand the question and, in fact, did not even have words in their language to describe such a condition. Meanwhile, we are told that dementia is a disease of aging and the price we must pay for our so-called "longevity." - Raymond Francis, Never Be Sick Again: Health is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It (Get the book.)

"One Indian shrine (huaca) was also referred to as villca, vilcacona, or vilcabamba, "place of the villca trees" or "villca forest," and an especially sacred mountain is known as Villca Coto. The primeval survivors of a great flood retreated to the peak of this mountain (Ibid., 51*). There are numerous other examples of this kind (cf. von Reis Altschul 1972). Moreover, villca also appears to have been a name for enemas. Villca seeds had great ritual significance as a beer additive in chicha intended for ceremonial consumption." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"Long-lived people supposedly lived in abundance in Pakistan's Hunza Valley, in the mountainous village of vilcabamba in Ecuador, and in the Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union, where yogurt was supposed to be the magic elixir. (The TV commercial featuring an ancient Soviet Georgian crone sweetly coaxing her octogenarian son to eat his yogurt is a classic.) Unfortunately, none of those longevity claims held up to scientific scrutiny." - Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D., The Okinawa Diet Plan : Get Leaner, Live Longer, and Never Feel Hungry (Get the book.)

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